boys from the age of 18 are banished to the bush for about a month…[culminating] in a circumcision ritual performed without any anaesthetic, using traditional surgical tools.

I remember that scene from Roots.

Oy vey. This is all just so confusing. Can I get a great white shark's opinion? Clearly, in this case, I guess it's better to stay uncirc'd (and there are whole sites devoted to it...heavily populated by women, for some reason).

Sibi praeputia fecerunt...but only if they're not paying the moyel enogh.

Some Australian Aborigines practiced subincision millennia before BMezine ever showed up.